REPLY TO PEASANTS OF SKOPIN UYEZD[1]

Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIV.

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Toimpose the extraordinary tax on peasants with below
average income isillegal. Measures have been taken to
lighten the taxation ofmiddlepeasants. In a few days there
will be a
decree.[2]Regarding the remaining questions,
I shall make immediate inquiries of the People’s Commissars
and a reply will be sent to you.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)

[1]Lenin’sreply to the peasants of Skopin Uyezd. Ryazan Gubernia,
was written in connection with the mandate of the uyezd
consultative congress, in which the peasants raised the questions of
reducing the extraordinary revolutionary tax on peasants of average
and below-average moans, abolishing the mobilisation of draught
horses and milch cows, increasing the grain quota to be left for
the peasant farms, and others.

[2]Thedecree “On Privileges for Middle Peasants in Levying the
Extraordinary Revolutionary Tax” was adopted at a session of
the All-Russia C.E.C. on April 9, 1919. It was published inIzvestiaon April 10.